In a theoretical AD DS setup, there's some Home Folders. These Home Folders are set up by Windows with the annoying permissions of only the Owner can access.
I'm aware that you can run programs using ...

So we have a bunch of SSD disks and would like to put them in a zpool on a Solaris 10 system. The file system will be exported via NFS to about 50 Ubuntu clients which will mount it as their $HOME. I ...

I have an AD environment with Windows 2008R2 Server where a few Windows 7 machines use FolderRedirection . Sometimes I need to re-initiate the homefolder creation process, but the only way I've found ...

I have read some articles that claim that using the Active Directory user home directory attribute to automatically map the home drive is a legacy method, deprecated, or not recommended. The second ...

Usually SSL certificates are installed system-wide (e.g. in /etc/ssl/certs). Is it possible to configure OpenSSL in a way that allows user to put certificates in their home directory (for example in ...

I searched and read the previously-asked questions like this one change directory automatically on ssh login, or another one suggesting editing ~/.bash_profile, but as I understand, that will work if ...

I found this (Difference between Roaming profiles, User Profile, Home Folder, and Redirected Folders?) but it doesn't really answer my question.
If I assign users a Home folder, is that essentially ...

I made the mistake of creating a home partition that fills up all my disk space, and it's formatted in XFS, which to my knowledge isn't shrinkable.
Since I have no use for the home partition anyway ...

I am currently managing a network of workstations running different flavours of Ubuntu. The server (also Ubuntu) runs a NIS server and exports a shared /home directory over NFS (in v3 compatibility ...

We're running on Ubuntu and have an Apache2 webserver with some apps that require cron-jobs installed.
The cron jobs occasionally send mails which of course goes to the www-data user. The home dir of ...

I've recently inherited a client who has a folder redirection policy GPO and home paths specified through user attributes in AD. Now the strange thing is, I have literally no idea how it is working. ...

I have a domain name I have registered and it is currently showing the Apache 2 Test Page from the /var/www/html/ directory, I was wondering how I can get it to point to a home directory instead ie: ...

I'm setting up a private Ubuntu web server. In my company I'm used to a deployment where the home folder of www-data is in /home/www-data, but on my plain Ubuntu installation it is in /var/www.
Now ...

One client has a Windows Domain with Home Folders, directed to a share using a GPO (\server\share\%username%).
The share has all users full control and the sub folders need permissions only for the ...

I need to restrict the permissions of user directories in /home so that, for some accounts, other users can not read files or cd in to them. But I still need to give system services access to them.
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I am setting up ProFTPd with MySQL authentication. It works so far, I can connect. However, I want to set the SQLDefaultHomedir directive so that I don't have to include it in my database. I want to ...

During our migration process from SBS2003 to Windows Server 2008 R2, I copied the user home directories across to their new location on the Windows 2008 R2 server.
I have a specific problem with one ...

I have a number of existing users in Active Directory that need a home directory created. They don't log directly in to Solaris but into a service running on that box.
If I login as them their home ...

I know if we setup a base folder or a profile path in the Profile tab of an AD user, we can copy it and the folder creation and permission setup will be automated.
My problem is that not all my users ...